Quotes About Perseverance

We used to tie-dye T-shirts and sell them to classmates. We used to make egg rolls and sell them at street fairs. I worked at the mall. My parents probably spent more money on the gas driving me to different jobs than I made.

I lost an apartment. l became homeless for 11 months and squatted in a building on Sullivan Street in lower Manhattan.

When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.

I admire the older ladies who carry on working. Look at Betty Driver on 'Coronation Street' - she's incredible.

If you love this game, you always want to be out there, not in the sideline dressed in the street clothes. Especially when you know you can help the team.

It's part of my life to feel like a criminal, to have eyes in my back and see if I'm being followed. It's a feeling that comes from street juggling because I have been arrested so many times.

I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.

The streets made me. They stay at me. There's nothing that's gonna take away from my legacy. I'm sorry. It is what it is. I'm dying this way. With the crown on my head, nobody can take nothing away from me. It is what it is. I am who I am. Bottom line.

I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.

Whether it's in the streets or its a nine-to-five, you can be hustling in many different aspects.

I used to play football on the streets with my friends and ended up where I am today.

I wasn't really into music. I was into the streets. I was too worried about the streets and how I was going to eat and how I was going to make the streets happen.

Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.

Every day, I walk the streets with my head held high, but deep down inside, sometimes I'm like, 'I just hope I can get through the day.'

I lived in the streets for three years when I was a kid, and every day, I didn't know where my next meal would come from.

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

I'm in a collective with the same guys I met on the streets at 12. The greatest investments I ever made were those friendships.

I began playing football on the streets.

I did marathons long before they were popular, when people running round the streets were looked at oddly.

Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.

I grew up in the streets, but that doesn't mean I'm a bum.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

I was never good at school and was always fighting in the streets.

There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.